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Contents:

1)	History of this forum
2)	Charter (Original Text)
3)	Moderation Policy 
4)	Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup
5) 	Why this forum exits	
6)	Where & How to submit articles
7)	Some Helpful tips
8)	World War 2 Archives: FTP Sites
9)	This FAQ: Archive Info, History & Credits


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Subject: 1) History of this forum


    NewsGroup: soc.history.war.world-war-ii
    Description: History & Events of World War Two.
    

    Status: moderated
    
    Proponent: 				Joel Furr (jfurr@acpub.duke.edu)
    
    Request for Discussion: 		Feb 21, 1994
    Call for Votes: 			March 23, 1994
    Voting Ended: 			April 13, 1994 23:59:59 UTC
    Vote Taker: 			UVV
    Votes: 				181 in favor, 17 against
    


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Subject: 2) Charter (Original Text) 

    Author: Joel Furr
    

    Discussion of the era 1939-1945 in  particular,  but ranging as far back
    as 1918 and as far forward  as  the  1950's  for  discussion  of  events
    leading to the War and post-war  events  such as the occupation of Japan
    and Germany. The  discussion  will  be  limited  to  social,  political,
    military, economic, technological, demographic, and historial aspects of
    World War II, including discussion of: 



    * Arms limitations treaties in the 1920's, intended to head
    off any future war
    * the Weimar Republic
    * the rise of the Italian Fascists
    * the Japanese war with China
    * the rise of the Nazi Party
    * American isolationism
    * Franco-British appeasement
    * Italian misadventures in Africa
    * German occupation of the Sudentenland and Austria
    * the war proper, 1939-1945
    * the Manhattan Project
    * the Holocaust
    * Post-war occupation of Japan and Germany
    * Post-war governments of Europe
    * and so on.
    



    In other words, the mandate for soc.history.war.world-war-ii is intended
    to be broad, rather than narrow, with  moderation in place less to limit
    discussion than to keep out Gannon  and  the  Holocaust Revisionists and
    other malicious  posters.  Should  Dan  Gannon  or  Serdar  Argic submit
    articles which actually  discuss  World  War  Two  rather than spreading
    their brand of conspiracy theory,  their  articles  will be approved for
    submission as well. 


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Subject: 3) Moderation Policy 

    
    Soc.history.war.world-war-ii will have a very relaxed moderation policy.
    The main purpose, as noted  above,  for  moderation  of this group is to
    prevent  it  from  turning  into  a  revisionist   flamefest   akin   to
    misc.headlines or  soc.history.  As  such,  any  message  which actually
    discusses World War II will be  approved  for  posting, provided that it
    does not attempt to  claim  that  events  such  as  the  Holocaust never
    happened. There are other groups  for  discussion of that question, most
    notably, alt.revisionism. 

    Moderation rules: 

    * Articles which discuss World War  Two  and its events will be approved
      for posting. 

    * Articles  arguing  that  the  Holocaust  never  happened  will  not be
      approved for posting. 

    * Articles must contain  original  thought.  Lengthy  quoting  of source
      material with a couple of  lines  of  comment  at  the  end  will  not 
      be approved for posting. 

    * Blank messages, test messages, advertisements, MAKE.MONEY.FAST, and so
      forth, will not be approved for posting. 

    * Articles which include excessive quoting (e.g. an article which quotes
      an  entire other article in order to  add a few comments at  the  end) 
      will be trimmed down by the moderator in question. 

    * An article MUST have  a  valid  reply-to  address  or  it  will not be
      approved for posting. 

    * Rejected articles will be shared  with  the other moderators for group
      consideration. 


    As noted below, the group will  be  group-moderated,  to  minimize delay
    between submission and posting and  to  keep  the group running when the
    traffic becomes heavy. 

	ADDENDUM: 'War Buddies' [June 94]

We've had a few of this type of message lately, and it seems to be a "gray
area" in our charter.  These messages don't _really_ discuss WW2, and they
don't have any real historical content.  

People who want to search for old war buddies should post to soc.veterans.



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Subject: 4) Moderators List. Add/del policy. Setup

    

    Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators and
    moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote  in the event that a moderator is
    shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything). 


    LIST OF CURRENT MODERATORS FOR soc.history.war.world-war-ii
    __________________________________________________________________
    Dated: March 23, 1994
    

    amcmicha@mason1.gmu.edu 			Andrew McMichael
    bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil 	Brett Kottmann
    jbd@osbm.state.nc.us			John Davis
    jfurr@acpub.duke.edu 			Joel Furr
    kbullock@acpub.duke.edu 			Kenneth Bullock
    kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca 			Ken McVay
    mughal@alumni.caltech.edu 			Asim Mughal
    rick@bcm.tmc.edu 				Richard Miller
    schafer@anubis.network.com 			Martin Schafer
    


    June 09, 1994 - Due to technical problems moderator resigned.
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    ai292@freenet.carleton.ca 			Gordon McFee


    ADD/DEL POLICY FOR MODERATORS:
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    Moderators will be added by majority vote of the existing moderators and
    moderators will be removed by 2/3 vote  in the event that a moderator is
    shown to be failing to do the job (i.e. not posting anything). 



    MODERATION SETUP/APARATUS 
    _________________________ 

    This group will be group-moderated using  a Majordomo listserver. It has
    been configured so that each article received at ww2- sub@acpub.duke.edu
    will be sent to the next moderator  in  turn, using a list of subscribed
    moderators.  Hence,  the   *submission*  address  for  articles  will be
    ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu.  The   *contact*  address  for  the  group, once
    created, will be ww2- mod@acpub.duke.edu. 


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Subject: 5) Why this Forum Exits? 

    Author: Joel Furr
    

    A war includes  more  than  military  events.  A  war  includes  social,
    political, economic, military, and  demographic  events. Discussion of a
    war typically includes  the  *war  era*  and  not  just the war. Present
    groups which  exist  to  discuss  military  issues  are  very  specific:
    sci.military, alt.folklore.military, alt.war. All of these tend to focus
    very strongly on the  military  aspects  and  less on the historical and
    other aspects.  Soc.history.war.world-war-ii  will encompass all aspects
    of war. 

    Discussion of World War II  and  wars  in  general takes place on a wide
    range of newsgroups,  many  of  which   specialize  on  recent  military
    history. The  most  notable  example  of  war  discussion  taking  place
    elsewhere is the World War II mailing list, which averages 800 kilobytes
    per month of traffic and which  almost  closed down after presenting far
    too great a  load  on  its  moderators   than  they  could  handle.  The
    moderators of the list are in  support  of the proposed newsgroup as the
    subject is far larger than can  be  easily  dealt  with  in mailing list
    form. A newsgroup is needed. 



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Subject: 6) Where & How to submit articles ? 


    There are two ways to do so: 

    A- Thru USENET 

    While reading newsgroup  soc.history.war.world-war-ii  simply respond to
    the artilce or post a new  article.  The  article  will be automatically
    routed to one of the active moderators for review. 

    B- Thru E-MAIL 

    You may submit your article  to  the   following  address.  Again,  your
    article will reach one of the moderators for review. 

    The e-mail address is: 


    ww2-sub@acpub.duke.edu 

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Subject: 7) Some Helpful Tips 


    It may take up to 1-2 days for  your  article to be reviewed and another
    day or so for the article to reach  your  site after being posted from a
    moderator's site. 

    Articles not deemed fit for posting on the forum will be returned by the
    moderator with an explanation citing a rationale & the guidelines of the
    forum. 

    1. Always save a copy of your article  you submit till it appears on the
    forum. 

    2. If o The article does not  appear  on the newsgroup o The article was
    not returned back by the moderator o AND 3 days have elapsed. 

    Then  please  contact  the  moderators,  asap,  at  the  following email
    address: 

    			ww2-mod@acpub.duke.edu 

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Subject: 8) World War 2 Archives: FTP sites 


FTP SITE-1: 
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<jewell@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Larry & Kim Jewell)  June 8, 1994>


	Host: 	 	byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
	Directory: 	/pub/history/military/wwii
	Login:		anonymous
	Password:	_your_email_address

	Directory Listing:

150 Opening data connection for /bin/ls (131.215.139.234,3498) (0 bytes).
4307.txt*               command.decisions/      pictures/
50.years.later/         conferences/            policy/
D-Day/                  declaration.of.war/     sept_1939/
U.S.Army.campaigns/     gpo_wwii.txt*           special.studies/
USN_wwii/               justice.pap*            speeches/
active_carriers.txt*    national_arc.txt*       treaties/
balkans.txt*            naval_chronology/       wwii-l_digests/
chrono_1938-41.txt*     pearl.harbor/


	June 11,1994: FTP site byrd is accepting contributions of public
		      domain items for the collection. Items  should  be 
		      uploaded to /pub/history/submissions.

	MORE Info on 'byrd'

<tryhardz@popmail.mcs.com (James P. Long) June 14, 1994>

Some of the subdir's in WWII are Battle of the Bulge/Command 
Decisions/D-Day/Naval Chronology.

The D-Day material contains very detaile studies of Utah Beach and Omaha 
Beach, both done by the War Dept. in 1945 and signed by George Marshall 
(they're in .ZIP format).


FTP SITE-2:
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<jbd@osbm.state.nc.us (John Davis)  June 09, 1994>

I am archiving my 50 Year Ago Today articles. Access information is below -

Instructions for downloading 50 YA articles -

o	The articles are stored by month. 
o	To retrieve the articles by FTP,  " % ftp vnet.net", 
o	enter "anonymous" when prompted for login ID, 
o	enter your Internet mail address when prompted for password. 
o	To change to the directory where the articles are stored enter 

		"cd /pub/jbd/50ya". 

o	The file name identifies the month 

		(example - may1944.txt, contains the May 1944 articles).

Directory Listing:	

150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
apr1944.txt     may1944.txt
226 Transfer complete.


FTP SITE-3:
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<Stupendous Man <BKOTTMANN@FALCON.AAMRL.WPAFB.AF.MIL> June 17 '94> 

	The ftp address for Miss. State is:

			ftp.msstate.edu

	Also note that the archives are available from other servers 
	as mirror files.

	Here are some more network archive sites:

Name=Unites States Military Academy
Path=
Host=euler.math.usma.edu
#
Name=History articles (various)
Path=1ftp:English Server:History:
Host=english-server.hss.cmu.edu
#
Name=White House information
Path=1/.dir/president.dir
Host=gopher.tamu.edu
Port=70
#
Name=Federal information services
Path=1/Other
Host=stis.nsf.gov
Port=70
#
Name=History Archives and Servers
Path=1/Subject/History
Host=riceinfo.rice.edu
Port=70


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Subject: 9) This FAQ: Archive Info, History & Credits

ARCHIVE INFO: This FAQ is archived & availble thru anonymous FTP &
              thru world-wide web.

        Anonymous FTP:
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        1. SITE:        rtfm.mit.edu
           Directory:   /pub/usenet/news.answers/world-war-2-faq.Z

        2. SITE:        ftp.uu.net
           Directory:   /pub/usenet/news.answers/world-war-2-faq.Z


        Word-Wide Web:
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        URL for USENET FAQs:

        http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html

        URL for this FAQ:

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/world-war-2-faq/faq.html



HISTORY:

Version 1.0  Released  May 10, '94:	Total 8 items 
Version 1.2  Released  Jun 10, '94:	Item #8 new, Item # 9- archive info add 
Version 1.3  Released  Jun 15, '94:	Item #3, updated, Item #9 expanded
Version 1.4  Released  Jun 26, '94:	Item #2, & #8 expanded.



CREDITS: WW2 Moderators


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